Patent Counsel Interview Questions
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Patent Counsel interview questions shared by candidates
Patent Counsel was asked...October 28, 2016
Describe how you draft an application.
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Interviewed 6 FAANG employees and got this: bit.ly/faang100
Senior Patent Counsel was asked...August 24, 2022
Senior Patent Counsel was asked...August 31, 2019
Tell me about your past experience.
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I noticed on its website that The Jackson Lab sells transgenic mice to universities, globally, so I explained that I had experience licensing and drafting agreements and the IP Head tersely responded, "What do you think you would do on a daily basis? We don't license transgenic mice from this office that's another office, it's not us." Unnecessarily rude. Less
Patent Counsel was asked...February 19, 2016
Senior US Patent Counsel was asked...October 20, 2015
Patent Counsel was asked...June 16, 2012
Why do you want to leave private practice?
Patent Counsel was asked...September 22, 2015
What Google product are you currently most interested in?
Patent Counsel was asked...February 17, 2021
Written test to draft a response to a rejection.
Patent Counsel was asked...June 28, 2023
They almost exclusively ask about how you will handle conflicts to the degree that I got the impression that something bad happened recently or that there is a lot of conflict at the company or between the departments. Many of the questions were oddly specific and also assumed a bad conclusion.... Describe a time that you worked on a team where someone was doing something wrong and you told them that they were wrong but they refused to listen to you. How did you handle that? Describe a time where you had to tell your boss repeatedly that they were doing something wrong but they refused to listen to you and were not taking your calls. What did you do? They will also pose hypothetical situations and ask how you would handle those. For example, how would you handle a situation where a scientist discovered something and is excited to publish but they can't publish until the patent is filed?
Patent Counsel was asked...January 4, 2021